Schwarzer stars in disaster movie

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One minute you're cruising, the next you're bruising. Socceroos
No.1 Mark Schwarzer woke up sweating from a goalkeeper's worst
nightmare on Saturday after Middlesbrough chucked away a 4-1 lead
in the last 10 minutes.

Norwich, on the other hand, must have thought all their
Christmases had come at once as they salvaged an unimaginable 4-4
draw.

Indeed, many of their fans must have left Carrow Road by the
time Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scored Boro's fourth, in the 78th
minute of the Premier League clash. The Dutch striker had already
equalised Damien Francis's opener in the first half and Franck
Queudrue added two more for Boro after the break, seemingly rubbing
it in.

Australia's top keeper will never forget what happened next.
Norwich cut the lead to two in the 80th minute with what seemed
like a consolation goal from Dean Ashton, but then Leon McKenzie
headed a third right on full-time, and in injury-time Schwarzer
watched aghast as Adam Drury was left unmarked at a corner and
slotted the equaliser past him.

Hardly the ideal way for Schwarzer to celebrate signing a new
three-year contract. Fans can only imagine what Boro manager Steve
McClaren had to say in the dressing rooms afterwards.